# smoking - Sunday 7 January, 2018
# smoking - Saturday 6 January, 2018
# Giving Up
# Giving Up
A new study showed the benefits
# smoking - Wednesday 3 January, 2018
# HSE
# HSE
One in eight people who smoked this time last year have since quit.
# smoking - Sunday 31 December, 2017
# Smoking Bans
# Smoking Bans
Married women with children reported the largest increase in well-being.
# smoking - Sunday 12 November, 2017
# Genetic Mechanism
# Genetic Mechanism
The worms exhibit behavioral responses to nicotine similar to what mammals experience.
# smoking - Saturday 4 November, 2017
# Smoking Break
# Smoking Break
Japanese companies are offering non-smoking staff an additional six days paid annual leave to make up for the breaks smokers take, writes Jason O’Callaghan.
# smoking - Saturday 28 October, 2017
# Your Say
# Your Say
The majority of Irish people say they are in good health, though over 60% are overweight or obese.
# smoking - Sunday 22 October, 2017
# Quit It
# Quit It
The new ban follows a clean-up of nearly 140,000 cigarette butts from a 2.5 kilometre stretch of the famed Patong beach in Phuket.
# smoking - Saturday 21 October, 2017
# Column
# Column
We need truthful information on the relative risks of cigarettes compared to the various smoke-free alternative products, writes David T Sweanor.
# smoking - Monday 3 July, 2017
# Ethical Investment
# Ethical Investment
The Charities Regulator sold off its shares this year.
# smoking - Wednesday 31 May, 2017
# Your Say
# Your Say
Children from deprived areas are twice as likely to inhale second-hand smoke as children from more affluent backgrounds.
# World No Tobacco Day
# World No Tobacco Day
We need smoking prevention efforts to ensure smoking rates continue to drop among all young people, writes Donal Buggy.
# smoking - Thursday 13 April, 2017
# Lighting Up
# Lighting Up
This would make the country only the second to do so, after Uruguay.
# smoking - Monday 10 April, 2017
# How To Quit
# How To Quit
Ireland’s health authority has recommended that the government wait for more studies before endorsing e-cigarettes.
# smoking - Friday 7 April, 2017
# QUIT
# QUIT
Smoking is directly related to more than 5,600 deaths in Ireland every year.
# smoking - Wednesday 15 March, 2017
# Lighting Up
# Lighting Up
A new report differentiates between occasional and daily smokers.
# smoking - Wednesday 1 March, 2017
# National Quit Day
# National Quit Day
One in every two smokers will die of a tobacco-related disease – pharmacists want to buck this trend.
# smoking - Sunday 26 February, 2017
# Quitting
# Quitting
A new smoking policy for the prison service is currently being finalised.
# smoking - Tuesday 7 February, 2017
# Quitting
# Quitting
New research found those who switched to vaping had reduced toxins and carcinogens in their bodies.
# smoking - Monday 30 January, 2017
# Your Say
# Your Say
A number of businesses in Dublin have moved to ban smoking where their customers eating outside.
# smoking - Friday 20 January, 2017
# Heart Disease
# Heart Disease
A study carried out over 11 years found patients with a healthy weight were almost twice as likely to die in hospital compared to people who were obese or overweight.
# smoking - Thursday 5 January, 2017
# Tackling Addiction
# Tackling Addiction
Data from Healthy Ireland reveals that 29% of smokers currently use e-cigarettes as an aid to quitting smoking.
# smoking - Tuesday 27 December, 2016
# Tobacco
# Tobacco
Ash Ireland today urged people to consider giving up smoking in the new year.
# smoking - Monday 26 December, 2016
# E-cigarettes
# E-cigarettes
More research is needed, however.
# smoking - Wednesday 21 December, 2016
# Sponsored By Hse Quit
# Sponsored By Hse Quit
You’ll be happier, healthier AND richer. What’s not to like?
# smoking - Tuesday 20 December, 2016
# Sponsored By Nicorette
# Sponsored By Nicorette
Have you made your New Year’s resolutions yet?
# smoking - Wednesday 9 November, 2016
# Stubbed Out
# Stubbed Out
UCD and Trinity College have started making their universities smoke-free.
# smoking - Thursday 20 October, 2016
# Healthy Ireland Survey
# Healthy Ireland Survey
Some 23% of adults in Ireland smoke, the same proportion as in 2015.
# smoking - Tuesday 18 October, 2016
# Butt Out
From The Daily Edge
# Butt Out
Ooh. It’s a close one.
# smoking - Friday 7 October, 2016
# Sponsored By Quit
# Sponsored By Quit
Sarah Daly thought she was a hopeless case – but there’s no such thing when it comes to quitting smoking.
# smoking - Thursday 11 August, 2016
# The AA
# The AA
A study by the AA found a discrepancy between the number of people who smoke compared to the number of people who say they do.
# smoking - Sunday 31 July, 2016
# Your Say
# Your Say
The fact that e-cigarettes don’t contain tobacco or tar is one of the arguments as to why they should not be taxed as heavily as normal cigarettes.
# smoking - Thursday 30 June, 2016
# Sponsored By Nicorette
# Sponsored By Nicorette
And some happen as soon as you stub out that last cigarette.
# smoking - Tuesday 14 June, 2016
The majority of local authorities have committed to smoke-free policies.
# smoking - Tuesday 31 May, 2016
# World No Tobacco Day
# World No Tobacco Day
Two in three smokers want to give up writes Donald Buggy of the Irish Cancer Society.
# smoking - Monday 30 May, 2016
# Sponsored By Nicorette
# Sponsored By Nicorette
And some happen as soon as you stub out that last cigarette.
# smoking - Friday 20 May, 2016
# Smoking
# Smoking
Regulation of e-cigarettes will also be enforced from today.
# smoking - Monday 16 May, 2016
# Controversial
# Controversial
Finian McGrath said that he personally supports smoking areas in pubs and restaurants.
# smoking - Saturday 7 May, 2016
A range of measures across the world signal big changes to how tobacco is sold.
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